U.S. Non-Governmental Human Rights Organizations

This website provides information on the ACLU's use of human rights strategies as part of its legal and legislative advocacy. It also provides information on relevant court cases and other useful resources for keeping current on human rights litigation and advocacy efforts in the U.S.

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is a non-profit legal advocacy and educational organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. CCR's website provides access to news, publication, reports, and other resources. This website also provides a list of links to CCR's approximately 150 current and past human rights cases that is sortable by issue area.

Through its Human Rights in the U.S. Project, the Human Rights Institute (HRI) works to enable U.S. lawyers, policymakers and advocates to incorporate a human rights framework into their social justice advocacy efforts. The HRI's website provides access to its reports and other publications relevant to human rights advocacy in the U.S. as well as links to video and podcasts of speeches and panels it hosts on human rights-related subjects.

The U.S. Human Rights Network (USHRN) is a coalition of over 300 individuals and organizations working on multiple human rights issues within the U.S. USHRN's website provides access to news, publications, reports, and other resources relating to issues involving U.S. implementation of the human rights treaties it has ratified as well as unratified human rights treaties.

This website provides news, reports, commentaries, and other resources relating to the status of human rights in the U.S.

Human Rights Blogs

These human rights-related blogs were selected because most are up-to-date, and they offer a number of entries that provide information on human rights-related issues, cases, statutes, and/or policies in the U.S.